T. Coraghessan Boyles The Love of My Life Passage Analysis Essay

That thing in the Dumpster--and he refused to call it human, let alone a baby--was nobodys business but his and Chinas. Thats what hed told his attorney, Mrs. Teagues, and his mother and her boyfriend,and hed told them all over and over again I didnt do anything wrong. Even if it was alive, and it was, he knew in his heart that it was, even before the state prosecutor represented evidence of blunt-force damage and death by asphyxiation and exposure, it didnt matter, or shouldnt have mattered. There was no baby. There was nothing but a mistake, a mistake clothed in blood and mucus. When he really thought about it, thought it through on its merits and dissected all his mothers pathetic arguments about where hed be today if shed mat as he did when she was pregnant herself, he hardened like a rock, like sand turning to stone under all the pressure the planet can bring to bear. Another unwanted child in an overpopulated world? They should have given him a medal. (623)In T. Corag hessan Boyles The Love of My Life, passage above, we start up to see that there is no regret for the choices made by the characters. Jeremy whose voice we hear in the passage cant even refer to his child as something human. Jeremy views his and chinas inception as an IT and he cant seem to grasp the concept that he has through with(p) something immoral and wrong. Mistakes are made by many couples and they most likely pull up stakes choose to deal with them without any outside help some jobs need other. Problems begin when the people in the relationship forget to realize when to draw the cable length and focus on what is truly important, which unfortunately to them might not always be the other person relationship or the relationship itself. When a problem aris... ...serve it? He still couldnt understand. That thing in the Dumpster--and he refused to call it human, let alone a baby. (622-623) Jeremy had formed the opinion in his psyche that he had done the right thing by g etting rid of his child, he began to make justifications for his action in saying that it was just another unwanted child in an overpopulated world. These rationalizations seem to only give Jeremy and China more reasons to not see what they had done as wrong. Consequently at this same time Jeremy is also start out to discover his relationship has had a severe change which he realizes when China calls him and ask--I want to see it, she sobbed. I want to see our daughters grave.(623) The mere voice of this statement seemed to freeze interpretation. Boyle, T.Coraghessan. The Collected Stories of T.Coraghessan Boyle. London Granta Books, 1998.